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TIL: If North Dakota seceded from the US it would be the 3rd largest nuclear power in the world. (#8 on this list)

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vwYD TIL a 38-year-old mother asked her son’s deeply-religious friend to pick her lotto numbers and agreed to share any winnings. The ticket was a jackpot winner. The mother refused to share the money until she was ordered to by the New York Supreme Court.
XnOR TIL that Big Boi from OutKast, as a child, would throw candy parties where he’d charge kids to come to his house and eat candy all day. He would DJ it.
5YRan TIL On July 13, 1837 Commodore Thompson of the Republic of Texas Navy raised the single star banner under a 23 gun salute and claimed Cozumel for the Republic
X9yE TIL that Black and White American’s use different variations of sign language (American Sign Language and Black American sign Language) because like other schools, schools for the deaf and blind were also segregated. BASL is still taught in the South, despite segregation no longer existing.
5Pep TIL Eastern Airlines closed so suddenly in 1991 that thousands of passengers and crew were left stranded across the country as their connecting flights, or return flights, were suddenly cancelled.